The Deep-Sea Data Mining Frontier: Ethics, Governance, and Valuation of Abyssal Resource Rights
The Earth’s oceans remain one of the last unexplored frontiers, particularly the abyssal zone, lying over a kilometer beneath the surface. As technological advances in deep-sea robotics, Deep-Sea Data Mining, AI-controlled underwater drones, and materials science accelerate, previously impossible commercial ventures are now feasible. These include the extraction of rare earth minerals from hydrothermal vents
